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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/14/043200
"The kernel meets The Colonel in a just-published Microsoft patent application for an Advertising Services Architecture, which delivers targeted advertising as 'part of the OS.' Microsoft, who once teamed with law enforcement to protect consumers from unwanted advertising, goes on to boast that the invention can 'take steps to verify ad consumption,' be used to block ads from competitors, and even sneak a peek at 'user document files, user e-mail files, user music files, downloaded podcasts, computer settings, [and] computer status messages' to deliver more tightly targeted ads."
You know, the more that is revealed about Microsoft and Vista, the more I'm glad that I'm writing this on a Mac. I will continue using Windows PCs at work, and we'll probably be upgrading to Vista in a year or two, but I doubt that I'll ever buy another Windows machine. If I absolutely have to for school, I'll get a $600 laptop and all it will be used for is school work.
"The kernel meets The Colonel in a just-published Microsoft patent application for an Advertising Services Architecture, which delivers targeted advertising as 'part of the OS.' Microsoft, who once teamed with law enforcement to protect consumers from unwanted advertising, goes on to boast that the invention can 'take steps to verify ad consumption,' be used to block ads from competitors, and even sneak a peek at 'user document files, user e-mail files, user music files, downloaded podcasts, computer settings, [and] computer status messages' to deliver more tightly targeted ads."
You know, the more that is revealed about Microsoft and Vista, the more I'm glad that I'm writing this on a Mac. I will continue using Windows PCs at work, and we'll probably be upgrading to Vista in a year or two, but I doubt that I'll ever buy another Windows machine. If I absolutely have to for school, I'll get a $600 laptop and all it will be used for is school work.
